re: Legal way to create open water in rice field?

Anything done that would not be considered a normal agricultural practice for rice production or crawfish production in flooded rice fields would put you jeopardy with the law. For example, if you were creating open area trapping lanes to place crawfish traps in flooded rice field of un-cut rice by using a wheeled crawfish combine to lay down the rice that would be considered by crawfish aquaculture experts a “normal” or common practice for crawfish production, although most trappers would rather cut trapping lanes prior to flooding. I wouldn’t be willing to potentially go to court over it if LDWF enforcement didn’t see it that way.